Nate7474

I would be surprised if we are aggressive in FA at all in the position player market. They are going to have some tough decisions to make already and adding a high priced player here makes that even more glaring. I could see us waiting and potentially taking on a 1 year prove it contract for someone who isn’t getting the deal they want but that’s about it. Pitching is where I see any spent money going this offseason again atleast early on. Where I see some tweaking being done is thru trades. Players of ours that that are getting into the arb years and blocking prospects or prospects that have fallen off being flipped for system depth and lottery ticket type players that have 1-2 really good tools but need development. I see a potential issue is pitching depth in our system right now so that’s where I’d be looking to add.

59.3 or 28/38 of graded centers overall 59.8 or 21/38 pass block 58.6 or 33/38 run block Basically he is not even playing at a replacement level. I would be shocked if he is on next year’s roster.

If the defense didn’t hold, which it didn’t and we had 4 minutes left like we should have GreenBay likely punts on that 4th down or has to get atleast another 1st down or two to run time out which is a much larger margin of error. My point still stands that he mismanaged the final two times we had the ball but again this is in my opinion.

They drafted 2 olineman this year and 2 last year. They also signed a DT and resigned multiple DLineman last year. You can disagree with their choices but not addressing it is a wrong take. I will say 2 things to your point, that relying on Davenport to supply pressure opposite of Hutch was stupid and relying on Glasgow for anything other than a backup veteran presence was also dumb. However, I believe they didn’t know Ragnow was retiring because he has hinted at that in multiple off seasons and Glasgow would’ve been the backup at all 3 interior positions.

I don’t believe there is a win now mode in the NFL. Holmes and Campbell want to be in win forever mode. This is a foreign concept to Lions fans so wanting to be all in makes sense. I am much more interested in being an organization that has an opportunity every season, even if they start to look like they're falling out of the running like right now, are still playing winning football overall.

Goff has no skills that are likely to decline much with age at least in the near term. His decline in play recently has nothing to do with his skills declining and everything to do with his athletic limitations specifically with handling middle pressure. He is a surgeon and extremely smart when given time. I am sure the organization has seen this and will address it when they can this offseason.

Honestly he’s really not but since it is objective I can only state my reasons for this. He often goes to half without using his timeouts when there was an opportunity to use them for potential points. They often are slow at making decisions on when to challenge or not to challenge allowing teams to quick snap and get away with a bad play. Currently we are having a problem with breaking the huddle quick enough to allow for Goff to read the defense. Today there’s examples of using the run game down 2 scores with under 5 minutes left in the game. I just believe it is a weakness of higher he needs consistently work on and it’s gotten a lot worse n the last couple weeks while he is calling plays.

There is one major flaw that I see with the Holmes/Campbell leadership and it’s by far the most annoying thing for me. Its that they are both stubborn to a fault and they are not going to make changes to the game plan based upon availability of players. Campbell is also not going to change his FG vs go for it approach either based on it. The amount of time that I see us go for it straight up the middle like we still have last years line is infuriating. Also he should have taken the points and got to 7 down. Next drive we can choose to go for it on 4th even after the sack knowing we still only need one score instead of being forced to kick the field goal there. Head coach calling plays is brutal for clock management strategy which I already consider one of the weaker attributes for Dan. Too many hats cause for slow decisions and I would still rather have Morton calling plays. It’s not like the offense has improved. This team is going to have a hard time making the playoffs this year I think. just too many injuries/weaknesses to overcome at this point. However the talk of a closed window is just dumb. This is a very talented roster that is just a couple players away at key positions on the line to be exactly where they were last year and no one is coming out of their prime yet.

If we are going to be stubborn and play man to man then we have to get pressure. Way too easy of throws so far.

Will Goff throw the dang ball. He has to know there won’t be time.

And Wright as well. Going to be a much different looking offensive game plan then we are used to I think. Mostly run based and short routes again with a screen game. Unfortunately that’s similar to the game plan we had week one and the Packers dominated us. Expect heavy A-gap pressure and simulated pressure with walked up backers for added confusion. Defense I fear is going to need to play great and potentially get a couple takeaways.

Don’t lose sight of the fact that we were already in FG for range and we threw it well short of the sticks again.

Apparently the players got their money then decided they didn’t want to play with much effort anymore.

I agree with a lot of this at least how the roster stands right now. I will add that I still think we see a trade or two. I could see McKinstry/Sweeney/Vierling/Perez and even Keith or Carpenter potentially moved for some pitching along with some of our log jam of 2B prospects. I think they want McGonigle to earn a spot on the opening day roster. Sent him to the fall league for some 3rd base experience and he will play SS/3B/2B to get experience and find playing time near the amount of a full time starter. If they sign a Bichette or Bregman type I don’t think that plan would change other than a bigger need for a trade.

He'll take responsibility for it but don't expect changes its who they are.

Sure but odds are based on the night we don't do anything with. The difference is early in the game we were way to aggressive in going for it and not getting it. Then we got into throwing only mode and Goff cant handle interior pass rush so he turned into a pumpkin.

Division games are hard.

I never expect trades in the NFL and Holmes background make its unlikely he ever is going to be very aggressive outside of the draft with draft picks.

Yep same as against the Packers/Chiefs/Vikings. We have an interior OLine problem and its bad.

Giving way to much respect to their defensive line. Montgomery only 6 carries which is basically what he complained about Morton doing.

I would like to take the opportunity to look back at my post from earlier in the week.

Its windy/cold and he has pressure coming up the middle. I'm unsure why we are running those longer routes. Id like to see less posts that are working away from the QB and more crosses and digs.

The only loss that was unexpected was the Vikings and before the year started we would've assumed we would lose to the Ravens. We are basically at the exact record I expected. The schedule this year is just flat out hard.

A lot of season left, don't overreact. This game has almost no bearing on if we make the playoffs and most fans had it marked as a likely loss the day it was announced . If they win their division games the rest of the way they will be in.

I don't believe that it should be outlawed but it needs to be fair for both sides. If the offense gets to push a player then the defense should be able to as well. If the offense is allowed to put their helmet in the neutral zone then the defense should to. Then it needs to be reffed correctly, the NFL allows offensive lineman to get away with starting early to much.